Ginni Rometty Quotes
Virginia is for Lovers.
This slogan adopted by the Virginia Tourism Board was so successful that it became a de facto state slogan. It was originally developed by a team of Virginia Tourism officials working with the advertising agency of Martin & Woltz Inc. The slogan was inducted into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame on September 21, 2009 as one of the best advertising slogans ever—the only one that emanated from a government effort. There is a picture of a heart after the word “Virginia” and as the graphic shows, this is a part of the slogan.
Virginia, Tourist Travel Slogan, 1969
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Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive who served as executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She previously served as chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company. She retired from IBM on December 31, 2020 after a near-40 year career at IBM. Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales, marketing, and strategy. While general manager of IBM's global services division, in 2002 she helped negotiate IBM's purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers' IT consulting business, becoming known for her work integrating the two companies. As CEO, she focused IBM on analytics, cloud computing, and cognitive computing systems.
